A proposal to build a private water and sewer system in Goodview brought a crowd of opponents to the Bedford County Planning Commission’s first meeting of the new year. Opposition wasn’t limited to just the special use permit under consideration but extended to the density of the residential developments it is intended to serve.

While investigating a burglary at a barn on Homestead Road in Bedford County, Bedford County Sheriff’s investigator Sgt. Brian Neal testified at a preliminary hearing Monday in General District Court that he was approached by Jay Woodrow Creasy, who lived adjacent to the property, who notched an arrow in a bow and pointed it in his direction.

“I don’t allow pigs on my farm,” Neal said he was told by Creasy, who then added, “now you’re going to die.”

The Moneta woman accused of faking having terminal breast cancer, and receiving money from fundraisers to help her, is remorseful for her actions, according to her lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Michael Lonchar.

Ashley Barton Weeks, 27, waived her right Monday in Bedford County General District Court to a preliminary hearing on a felony charge of obtaining money by false pretense. The case will now go before a grand jury, likely to be heard in February.